WIP Small Works Art Thread

Really nice looking scene Rafael. I like the style it has. That weird character mesh thingy is kinda creepy and seems outta place with everything else, but other than that, it looks great!

 

Hahahha, that creepy thing is my second test at sculpting a human, while sculpting him, I started messing around and... well.. placed legs on his backs .

It's just a placeholder for now, I was testing normal maps with him. But I plan on making a little enemy creature. Even if this does not turn out into a little game.

And also, Thanks Snow hahah.

- Rafael.

 

finished my adventurer character, its time to rig him

 

This is freaking sweet!! I recently started playing with the skin shader myself, and I am VERY impressed...

 

Continuing with the unconnected limbs! Here is an orc:

 

@Florian: WTF That's so freaking realistic! A-m-a-z-i-n-g!!

MOAR STUFF PLZ!

 

Nice Orc. I can't wait to see more limbless designs, especially less humanoid ones.

 

TF!!!!

Just a tiny update. Still trying to figure out the possibilities, Added my own hdr, tweaked the maps, twerked a bit on the shader itself, became homo and updated the webplayer... https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/36367206/Ten24/Ten24/Ten24.html

 

My wife just walked in while I was looking at that webplayer dude and her face went to the WTF expression

Looks great Florian. Do you work with UDK as well?

 

Heh well be thankful he has pants on, would be harder to explain otherwise

Looks good Florian, first screen has too much bloom though of skin, second one is better one.

 

He looks great, I'd almost feel sorry sticking a sword through him... almost...

 

Needed a break from doing cute things, 40ish minutes:

 

Marcos: Eek!

 

Hahaha!. To calm your wife down...a female boobed webplayer is on the way If that doesn't help...his name is Ryan Terry

Haven't worked with UDK for years. It's of course the better package but it always felt it's made for huge teams doing huge games.
I doing mostly smaller projects and unity just felt right. But I have to admit, that it's sometimes disappointing, if you buy gfx features in the store to push unity to UDKs visual level and see the performance drastically fall apart, if your project grows.

 

A large threat that can appear later in my game, called Star Bomba (as in Tsar Bomba)

 

Looks cool Nick!

 

Nice sculpt!

@Florian
Yeah bring on the female webplayer

And I agree with you. Unity's performance unfortunately can be a problem when you try to push it's graphical limits. Still enough for smaller scaled games IMO.

 

This line right here, makes me sad :'(

Playing around with Skin Shaders again... this took a bit of time to get the look and feel I was going for... softer and fleshier skin...

 

Thank you! He does look pretty huggable doesnt he?

 

First positive result at character modeling, I'm pretty happy with the results, even knowing that it's still horrible, lol. My problem here was the UV mapping part, the modeling was easy, texturing could have been easier and more detailed but the uv is just horrible and I can't get it right...



- Rafael

 

Except for missing demon wings, she looks a lot like Etna from Disgaea!

 

Just messed with box projection in skyshop <3

webplaya

 

You don't got to be sad.
Unity is definitely capable of doing a great looking 3D fighting game as you show us here frequently
I just wouldn't build a GTA/Skyrim like game with next-gen graphics with it. It would simply fail there. I mean we don't even have a 64bit editor yet.

But back on topic.

Even it's just a simple room, it's still damn fine looking Florian.

@Rafael
Looks good for your first positive result. I just think her eyes placed too close to each other.
Rule of thumb is: There should be enough space between the eyes, for a third eye.

 

Fun with solid colors

 

Thanks. And yeah, thats the spirit ! Great visuals don't need to be huge like Skyrim...and that doesn't mean "journey" or "the witness" great visuals.
Unity can totally look next gen on smaller scales. It's just a matter what type of game you are aiming at and plan it carefully.
If you are going for a two player beat'm up...you can have 50K poly fighters, "expensive" skin shader, real motion blur, fancy lighting and in the end, nicer screens than Crysis. All the tech is there...I just wouldn't push the beat'm up to be a "Ryse"
But well...If Unity doesn't solve this, the hardware power soon will

 

True... Getting a little tired of these Out of Memory errors...

Bak on topic... not a bad start rafael... definitely continue focusing on the forms of the head and body... and also use references.

 

That game BLOWS to me... and I am definitely loving the box projection mapping... this is perfect for closed rooms like yours...

 

This is gorgeous and impressive

 

Looks really nice. Might take a little inspiration on the style.

 

My word, that is a pretty room!

Thanks!

Did some more on it just now, woke up thinking it looked more silly than menacing.

 

Marco: The horns make it look a little "generic devil"-y, but the other changes to the face definitely make it more menacing (and the fact that it isn't pink anymore haha)

 

Cheers for the crit!

Yeah, I agree, I'll have to make them agree with the more angular lines of the face when I next have a go at it!

Thanks again

 

Yup thats about it. Thankfully i agree with that 100% only by now since we have Skyshop+few GI solutions, a year ago could be different story.

As for box projections what are they used for? I assume they work only with boxes since they are called that way, but what can they be used for except boxed lights in interiors?

 

That's because that character was my concept art haha, I just did a quick google search of a concept art and she was the best one I could find.

 

They project the reflection based on a defined box shape. Sounds limited but if used very subtle, they are by far a better alternative to a generic cubemap reflecting random stuff. "Remember me" made massive use of it but they also solved some obvious problems with additional tech, like reflecting image proxies, blends between cubes and reflection blockers etc.
I will do some tests, to see how the transition works visually between rooms and corridors in a more realistic case...

 

I still have to texture this, I'll post a textured render later : )

 

Randomly generating expressions from BlendShapes:



Pretty hilarious to watch her face go from mood to mood in the editor

 

I did it. Especially that bottom right image.

 

Great stuff marcos ! I would love to see a webplayer

 

Great face deformation! Looks like a very versatile topology!!

 

What I would love to see would be a timelapse sculpt from any of you mad guys. I mean, Jesus.

Even made me try out zBrush, since I feel it would be a nice addition to my (Low/Highpoly projection lacking) Cinema 4D centered workflow, but frankly I have no idea what I'm doing. Fun as all hell though. Ima go and see if I can get this lady back into C4D and rig her up. And give her some clothes. Maybe.

 

I noticed that when you stare at one of the walls in the indented sections without lights that the wall slowly turns really bright.
Do you think that is an error with Skyshop or maybe some conflict with your post-process setup?

 

None of that. The standard "adaptive reinhard auto white" tonemapper...I should have tweaked the settings but so far, it's expected behavior. It just brightens the screen, until it finds white. If the whole screen is dark, the whole screen turns white. Looks indeed a bit weird but nothing skyshop related.

 

I find that my favorite Tonemapper is definitely "Adaptive Reinhard Auto White" and Photographic...

 

I'm totally going to post this in another thread, but I saw something about a community manager for Mighty No. 9 who created a genderswap of Megaman (Rockman in Japan), and got holy hell for it.

Because I am a troll who is good at what he does (trolling, certainly not art), I created my own version of Rockgirl.

 

Cheers!

Thanks, man!

Here's the topo:



Normally I'd use all quads, but I wanted to tuck in some extra loops in parts of the brow and other places to give me some more control, so there are a couple of triangles here and there. Also, since it was a retopo of a sculpt I also had no intention of subdividing it later.

Thank you, kind sir!

Here's a webplayer

Some notes:
- All the BlendShapes are symmetrical at the moment
- There's no mouth bag
- There are no limits or conditions set up yet, so the EyesWideOpen BlendShape can fight with the EyesClosed one and so on. Also CheeksPuff probably shouldn't occur when the mouth is open.
- Top set of teeth might be a little too low.

Let me know what you think! You'll mostly get really odd expressions but sometimes you get a couple in a row that look natural which makes you feel like a superhero.

I'll record the next step of that demon thing if you like, I'm not an amazing artist by any means though. I'd also love to see a timelapse of some of Florian or dogzerx' sculpts!

Cool start on that chick. Don't be afraid to bust out some reference and get those curves going!
Keep it up!

 

Wish I was quick enough to sceenshot all the nice ones. Love especially the subtle ones where she purses her lips more or less like this one



Just look at that adorable face, there definitely need to be more subtle ones, the overly expressive ones make her look like a Disney villain Such a versatile rig.

And then there was one where she opened her eyes and mouth more and more. Looked like she's witnessing the second coming or something.

Yes please. Will watch all the sculpts. Until then I'll go see if I can exaggerate my lady then.

p.S.: Yes one day I want to be an not amazing artist like that too

 

Im getting these flickering things on chrome on a mac book pro, just thought you should know.

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